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Overview and Scope

This document describes an architecture that provides the
infrastructure that allows generic UPnP devices, services and
control points deployed in remote physical devices to interact with
the corresponding UPnP devices, services and control points
physically attached to the home network. The mechanisms defined in
this architecture will allow to extend the home network so that it
will logically include the remote devices so that all devices will
be able to communicate among themselves using the UPnP Forum
defined mechanisms, e.g. UDA. The desired behavior of the
interactions between the remote device and home devices is
envisioned to be similar with the one expected as if all devices
are located in the same local area network.

In order to accommodate the above mentioned goals, the Remote
Access Architecture will provide means to connect the two segments
of the extended home network using established mechanisms. The
architecture recognizes that there might be several possible
alternative models to "bridge" the two segments and will provide an
interface that will allow them to be plugged, while enforcing the
same overall behavior of the whole system regardless of the model
used.

The architecture does not describes any interfaces to "service"
gateways that will enable non- UPnP entities to interact with the
UPnP devices, services and control points physically attached to
the home network.